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# 8  
Old 06-20-2007
That's perfect. Is there a way to dump the outfiles into a subdirectory, so they're separate from the original source files?
# 9  
Old 06-20-2007
Try this (not tested) :
Code:
awk -v dir="./extracts" '
   /^Document [0-9]/,/^==========*$/ {
      if (/^Document [0-9]/) {
         if (outfile) close(outfile);
         seq = $2;
         outfile = dir "/" FILENAME;
         sub(/\.[^.]*$/, "-" seq "&", outfile);
      }
      print $0 > outfile
   }
' *.txt

# 10  
Old 06-20-2007
perfect. Thanks so much to everybody. I've learned a lot.
# 11  
Old 06-20-2007
Although, if you have a few minutes, and if you feel like it, maybe you could you walk me through the steps so I know what it is that it's doing? Only if you have the time though...
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